Learning spaces, learning webs.

External Services Web 2.0

Self organised

Institutionallymanaged

(Wheeler, 2009)

E-Portfolio

Aggregator

Aggregator

Social Network

Social Network

Personal Learning Environment Model

Blog

LMS

Personal Learning

Environment

Functions of PLEs

Managing

informationGenerating

content

Connecting

with others

(Wheeler, 2009)

Functions of PLEs

Managing

informationGenerating

content

Connecting

with othersCommunication

with others (dialogue)

Sharing with others

(exchange)

Recording and sharing

achievement (e-portfolio)

Functions of PLEs

Managing

informationGenerating

content

Connecting

with othersCommunication

with others (dialogue)

Sharing with others

(exchange)

Learning

Recording and sharing

achievement (e-portfolio)

Learners enjoy learning when it’s engaging and fun!

Engaging and fun!

Serious games

Interactive narrativesRole play simulations

Massively Online Role Playing Games

anytime

personalised

anyplace

Learners will need new ‘literacies’

• Social networking• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self broadcasting• (Wheeler, 2011)

http://www.mopocket.com/

Learners will need new ‘literacies’

• Social networking• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self broadcasting

http://www.mopocket.com/

The new web environments are

game changers. learners now

need new (digital) literacies

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Personalized learning

• Personalized learning helps students to understand their own style of learning and to develop learning and teaching strategies that fit the ability of an individual

• Helps learners to develop self-management skills

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Personalised Learning?

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Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences

are acknowledged

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Personal Learning Environments

PersonalLearning Environment

Personal Learning Network

PersonalWeb Tools

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

PLEs are not only personal web tools and

personal learning networks. PLEs are

much wider than this, taking in experiences and realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based

materials, radio & more formal contexts.Learning content is not

as important now as where (or who) to

connect to, to find it.

PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen by learners to support their lifelong

learning.

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Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/

Intuitive handheld devices

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Natural gesture interface

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Connection…

• Learners gain knowledge and new ideas from each other

• Helps learners to develop self esteem• Encourage diversity understanding• Creates an environment of active, involved,

exploratory learning• Addresses learning styles differences among

students

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Communication

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Communication – online, En masse

• Helps the learners to share ideas• Helps the learners to stay in touch with each

other

Collaboration

‘The wisdom of crowds’

Common interests and purpose

Collaborative Learning

• Learners develop higher level thinking skills• Enhances student satisfaction with learning

experience• Develop social interaction skills• Increase student retention• Stimulates critical thinking and helps students

clarify ideas through discussions and debates

http://www.eastone.co.uk/

The ‘Architecture of Participation’

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From ‘sticky’ to

participative

Web 2.0

Social Media Landscape

• Social media stimulates the interest of learners to learn.

• Social media encourages learners to participate in learning

• Social media recognizes the differences in learning styles, and acknowledges them.

• Social media makes learning fun and flexible

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Social Media gives everyone a voice in the

community

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Social Media use

>500 Million

>100 Million >50 Million

>125 Million

>14 million

articles>4 Billion images

Source: http://econsultancy.com

2 Billion views/day24 hours/minute

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Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of Participation

Tagging

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Blogging

http://www.volusion.com/

In the act of writing... ...we are written.

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http://www.lifehack.org

Blogging on the move to capture images, sounds, experiences

Moblogging

Microblogging

http://www.xenstudio.co.uk

Retweeting is not repetition. It is amplification.

(Wheeler,2011)

Microblogging has potential for the future of learning -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/161/

- if we see it as a newcommunication Channel

- Ebner et al

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Media Sharing

http://flickr.com/photos/22409393@N03/4348233990/

Video, audio and images ...

... all contribute to the richness of the narrative.

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http://media1.break.com/

Collaborative tools

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Source: George Siemens www.connectivism.ca/http://www.sciencedaily.com

Connectivism

We live in a techno-social world

Learning occurs inside and outside of people – we store our knowledge in computers and in other people – George Siemens

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Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people,

become the surrogate for knowledge.

http://bradley.chattablogs.com

‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people. - Karen Stephenson

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Critical thinking

Collaboration

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Reflection

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Generating Content

Sharing Content Organising Content

Personal Web Tools

Communication

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Generating Content

Sharing Content Organising Content

Blog Mashup

Wiki

Tagging

Personal Web Tools

E-portfolio

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Personal Learning Environments - a concept based on Web 2 .0 and social

software

We are at present undergoing a deep and prolonged industrial revolution

based on digital technologies (Attwel, 2010)

The reform and reshaping of social systems and institutions

has tended to lag behind in periods of rapid technological

change (Attwel, 2010)

Profound innovations in technology tend to be reflected in older paradigms

(Attwel,2010)

but the changing ways in which people are using technologies to communicate

and to learn and the accompanying social effect of such use (Attwel, 2010)

a refusal to engage in these issues risks school becoming increasingly irrelevant to the everyday lives of many young people

(Attwel, 2010)

and particularly irrelevant to the ways

in which they communicate and share knowledge

(Attwel, 2010)

We have to review the industrial schooling model including the organisation of

institutions and pedagogy and curriculum (Attwel,2010)

It is not just young people who use social software for learning

(Attwel, 2010)

Social software is widely used in the

workplace for informal learning (Attwel, 2010)

Most informal learning is learner driven, problem based, or motivated

by interest (Attwel, 2010)

Google is the most used e-learning application

most learning is unaccredited

people learn through legitimate peripheral participation (Attwel, 2010)

PLEs are not another substantiation of

educational technology but a new approach to learning.

(Attwel, 2010)

A response to pedagogic approaches which require that learner’s e-learning systems need to be under the control

of the learners themselves. (Attwel, 2010)

and recognize the needs of life-long learners for a system that provides a standard interface to different institutions’ e-

learning systems, and that allows portfolio information to be maintained across institutions. (Attwel, 2010)

Learning is now seen as multi episodic, with individuals

spending occasional periods of formal

education and training throughout their working life.

(Attwel, 2010)

PLE are based on the idea that learning will take place in

different contexts and situations and will not be provided by a

single learning provider (Attwel, 2010).

the idea of a Personal Learning Environment recognises that

learning is continuing and seeks to provide tools to support that

learning (Attwel, 2010)

Using whatever tools and devices which the learners

choose (Attwel, 2010)

It also recognises the role of the individual in organising their own learning (Attwel,

2010)

PLEs can help in the recognition of informal learning (Attwel, 2010)

PLEs can develop on the potential of services oriented

architectures for dispersed and networked forms of learning and knowledge

development (Attwel, 2010)

“the heart of the concept of the PLE is that it is a tool that allows a learner (or

anyone) to engage in a distributed environment consisting of a network of people, services and resources. It is not just Web 2.0, but it is certainly Web 2.0 in the sense that it is (in the broadest

sense possible) a read-write application.”

(Attwel, 2010)

The promise of Personal Learning Environments could

be to extend access to educational technology to everyone who wishes to

organise their own learning (Attwel, 2010).

The ‘pedagogy’ behind the PLE – if it could be still called that – is

that it offers a portal to the world, through which learners

can explore and create, according to their own interests and

directions, interacting at all times with their friends and community

(Attwel, 2010)

the PLE will challenge the existing education systems and

institution (Attwel, 2010)

Policies to support the development and implementation of PLEs (Attwel,

2010)

recognize different forms and contexts of learning (Attwel, 2010)

the development and adoption of new pedagogies (Attwel, 2010)

the co-shaping of technologies bringing together techies and

teachers, enterprises and institutions (Attwel, 2010)

References

Wheeler, S. (2009). Personal Learning Environment. Retrieved March 14, 2013, from http://www.slideshare.com.

Wheeler, S. (2011). Personal Learning Environment and the future of learning web 2.0 and smart extended web. Retrieved March 14, 2013, from http://www.slideshare.com.

Duke, D. (2009). Learning Personal Environment and Learning Network. Retrieved March 14, 2013, from http://www.slideshare.com.

References

Downes, S. (2006). Personal Learning Environment.

Retrieved March 14, 2013, from

http://www.slideshare.com.

Koper, R. (2010). Personal Learning Environment.

Retrieved March 14, 2013, from

http://www.slideshare.com.

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